Recent content by sedrosken

I feel I should also add that he’s going to be fine. I neglected to throw that in there in my fit of being dramatic.

Dad's doing worse than he'd admit to me. Not to air out all his medical issues for all and sundry but when my uncle and grandma went up to see him, well -- he went to the hospital this afternoon, and they're figuring out putting a feeding tube in here in the next few days and sending him to...

I'm using one of those weird half-keyboards for gaming on the couch since I can just plunk it down wherever and not have to bend my wrist unnaturally to get it to line up with my laptop's keyboard when I'm in the living room. I've had to leave my left wrist in jail (a brace) nightly for a couple...

I dumped 22 hours into Oblivion Remastered over the course of the last week -- sleeping, eating, working, and Oblivion -- and I've got about 4-5 hours of life left in this save before I start a new build to do another couple of questlines. The systems that were reworked are amazing in their own...

You're right upon further examination -- Haswell indeed does support XP, albeit with earlier drivers. There were Skylake boards and machines -- particularly OEM ones -- that made use of DDR3 so I'd hesitate to use DDR3 RAM as your discriminator, but in general that's a decent enough rule to...

Yeah, the worst part of my adjustment to being single again was wanting to share my day with someone and having to break the habit of looking for a certain specific someone in my messages. I'd have something humorous or infuriating to share and I'd have to sit and realize... oh. No one who I can...

That sounds like peak XP era to me, aside from the earliest Oregon Trails. Those you can run with an emulator for your platform of choice. Something like a Core2 or Sandy bridge box would be free on up to extremely cheap and do the job fine -- literally, any of them would do the trick, perfectly...

I’m not saying I need the entire palmrest to be one big touchpad, but the postage stamps that qualified for them in the 90s and 2000s are unusable IMO. There’s no room for granular movement without making it so sensitive that a quarter inch movement jets the cursor across the screen. And the...

Late 90s and early 2000s touchpads were absolutely utterly god-awful. Either too sensitive or not sensitive enough, far too small, and I actually happen to use the gestures that only became common in the mid 2010's because PC makers finally got around to copying Apple on their superb touchpads...

I only seldom order stuff from Amazon, because I refuse to pay for prime and usually I'm ordering several small things that don't add up to their 35 dollar threshold to get free shipping otherwise. Meanwhile on eBay I only rarely pay for shipping on anything. That said, with the tariffs, I...

This is going to sound like sacrilege, but since touchpads finally got good for PCs I've been kind of predominantly a touchpad user for general purpose computing, reverting to a mouse when I'm playing a game where the mouse controls the camera. I can't imagine that's any better for my wrists...

Wonder if the N150 being out is going to make the N100 inventory do a price drop. Given that it seems to be an incremental bump all around, I'm guessing not. Especially with the tariff situation.

I was going to wait for a sale to pick it up but I got a steam gift card sitting around so I grabbed it. I'm glad I did, it's lots of fun. My friends are constantly making "we need to cook" references now.

I just remembered I actually underclocked the GPU using ATiTool in another bid to make sure it doesn’t kill itself. It’s too memory bandwidth starved to make use of a 316MHz core clock anyway. I have it clocked at 225MHz on the core and 200MHz on the RAM, and it performs about as well — which...

Now for another project box that you haven't been told about yet -- I have a nearly mint IBM T42. Dothan core Pentium M @ 1.7GHz, mobility Radeon 9600 64MB, 2GB DDR-333. I'm currently imaging the 128GB SSD I originally put in it over to a 256 and expanding the partition. There's not even any...